Homogenization renders others interchangeable resources to be managed

Evidence

Homogenization: Differences in the Otherized group are disregarded; the Other is not viewed as an individual but rather a member of a group of interchangeable, replaceable items/resources to be managed. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 593

Categorization

• DEFINE: One of the core cross-cutting categories of domination the chapter defines; pairs the social process with the resource-management counterpart.
• XREF: connects to: Anthropocentric homogenization denies individual beings’ integrity and moral standing — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 595; Institutions inherently operate by reproducing homogeneity rather than diversity — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 20; Production and exchange form a unity of the diverse, not an identical unity (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Institutions inherently operate by reproducing homogeneity rather than diversity #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 20
• Disposability writes off people as depreciated consumption goods via group massification #exemplifies (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1881
• Capital profits from local cultural uniqueness while destroying it via gentrification and homogenization #expands (0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 463
• Producing sameness requires creating and externalizing difference #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 20
• Financialized capitalism productively generates new shared communities rather than merely destroying them #complicates (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 98
• Homogeneity is never natural but requires constant repressive maintenance #corroborates (0.78)
• In-groups can cohere by homogeneity or by shared structure #corroborates (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1620
• Production and exchange form a unity of the diverse, not an identical unity #complicates (0.72)